Joeleen and the "poor missionary meal".

    Wow!! It’s been a year since I quite my full time job, January 28th 2006.  I remember how nervous I was.  How would I support the family, can we afford the house payment, what happens if…?  All those things clouded my mind, but I knew it was the right decision. 

    It was funny.  When I came home that night Joeleen decorated the house in tinfoil and trashbags.  She made bean soup with toast and water, and for dessert was dirt pudding.  It sure is nice to have a supporting, loving wife that can take things like this lightly and with humor.  While most young wives are dreaming of  the day when life will be easy in a nice big house and her husband getting a secure well paying job, my wife is taking the plunge in the complete opposite direction!!  She’s strong in her faith so there was no contention with this decision.  And if you ask her today it was the best thing we’ve ever done, and we wouldn’t go back. 

   It is weird looking at the pictures of our house a year ago and seeing where we are now.  We went a whole year without a fulltime job and we never went hungry, never were late on a bill and we never had to go into debt.  God will provide, believe it or not.

    What a crazy adventure we’re headed for!